The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-15
sunport Home Industries.

Southern cities are constantly making
efforts to increase the number of their
manufacturing and business enterprises.
! Small enterprises are encouraged
as well as large ones, because
they help to build up the towns. Several
Southern cities have recently offered in
ducements to increase their manufacturing
industries. Chattanooga, for instance, has
subscribed $4,000 for that purpose.
Savannah has only few large industries,
but she has great number of small ones,
and they contribute largely to her pros
perity. These small industries support a
great many people who spend all they make
here
There is a good deal Of complaint that
they are not supported as they should be-
Much of the work that ought to be done by
them is sent elsewhere. 1t is said that men
who rent their houses to mechanics and even
officers of institutions in which the small
savings of mechanics are deposited not in
frequently send elsewhere for what they re-
quire for their personal use How do they
expect the shoemakers and the tailors to
live!
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this city interested in one way and another
in printing. A great deal of the printing
which our business men need is not done
here. The orders for it are sent to other
cities, and are sometimes given to those in
other cities who cannot fill them, and who
have to send them still further away to be
filed A printer often discovers that his
business associates, and even friends, who
on occasions look to him for favors, have
given orders for printing which could be
as well and as cheaply done at home, to
printers outside of the State The money
thus paid never comes back. 1t ought TO
be put in circulation here. There is no use
of bringing mechanics and other workers
hero unless they are permitted to do the
work which legitimately belongs here.
Every workman who comes here must have
house to live in and supplies for himself
and family. His wants make business,
which benefits every class of business men.
There are about a dozen printing estab-
lshments in Savannah, and it is probable
that each of them could do double the
amount of work it now does The more
work these establishments do the greater
must he the number of their employees. Print
ing can be done here as fine and in about
as great a variety as anywhere else in the
country. One printing establishment at least
is not surpassed anywhere in its facilities
for doing all kinds of printing, and yet it is
asserted by those who have investigated the
subject that there are corporations and
business men who pretend to be anxious to
promote the prosperity of the city who pa
tronize the printers of other cities rather
than their own, although they do not get
more satisfactory work nor save anything
by doing So
These parties who ignore their home in
dustries would not feel that they were being
fairly treated if those who deal with them
should ignore them and do their trading in
other cities They should consider this
question of supporting home industries, be
cause they are vitality interested in it. They
will indirectly benefit themselves by giving
what support they can to home institutions.
The money put into circulation here helps
business here The money sent out of the
city for that which can as well be obtained
here does the city no good